The absence of strong conclusions of cost-effectiveness in this study mirrors recent research on falls prevention in the Netherlands [ 12], which found the intervention to be more expensive, but with additional health benefits—neither of which were statistically significant.
The cost effectiveness analysis in this study will compare the more intensive interventions to usual care.
Including a cost effectiveness component in this study is important, as policy makers seek to maximise health care funds across populations [ 20].
We believe using a coach rather than a pharmacist or nurse for calls may be more economical, although we have not assessed cost-effectiveness in this small study.
In conclusion, if the outcome is measured by generic quality of life the nurse-led telemonitoring programme is of limited cost-effectiveness in the study population.
If the outcome is measured by generic quality of life the nurse-led telemonitoring programme is of limited cost-effectiveness in the study population.
Psychosocial treatments for alcohol disorders have shown cost effectiveness in a large, randomized study of different treatments in the United Kingdom.
Modeling and the use of Markov decision models in cost-utility analyses have been more frequent during the last decade, and the cost-effectiveness in these studies has often been expressed as the cost per QALY gained.
We will also examine longer term cost effectiveness in later work, as participants in this study are being followed for longer than the eight months considered in this paper.
The lack of association between patient benefit and cost-effectiveness found in this study, suggests that patient benefit and cost-effectiveness were seen as distinct from each other by the staff.
Second, differences in cost structures may account the difference between cost-effectiveness results in this study and those obtained by other studies using the HPV DNA testing as primary screening or combined with Pap smear for cervical cancer screening.
